Why don't I have a reading icon? Still?
I just found out that Iain M. Banks's Consider Phlebas is available for both the Nook and Amazon Kindle for 99 cents. I haven't read it yet, but it's one of those books people periodically throttle me for not having read yet, so it's probably worth checking out.
Also, Barnes & Noble's Free Friday book, God's War, is still available for free. There ( Read more... )
Also, Barnes & Noble's Free Friday book, God's War, is still available for free. There ( Read more... )
And yeah-it's interesting, whenever anybody talks about The City and The City it's usually talking about rigidly divided cities-East and West Berlin, usually. But honestly, I think our own self-segregation within our cities is a better analogy.
I don't know, the thing that came to mind when I heard this analogy was this one commercial strip in Chicago. It's technically part of Beverly, a rich, rather suburban neighborhood, but since a) there's no parking and b) it's right on a bus line, most of the stores were really targeting people who lived due east and south of there. About five years ago, they started tearing out the old storefronts and more standard suburban fare (with parking).
And it was weird, you talk about the changes with people who lived in the neighborhood and they all claim there was nothing there before. Literally-that's what they say, that they lived around the corner from an empty storefront, or that they were aware that something was in there, but had no idea what. It wasn't for them, so they took no notice of it.
There's probably Twin Cities examples, too-though the only one I can think of is how I'm constantly surprised at how close Uptown is to Edina.
And yeah-I was excited about the idea of Corwi coming back in to the book, and a little disappointed that she never really reappeared. It's not necessarily that she was better developed, I just like her stock character better.
At least LJ was down all this morning so you could get work done, right? . . . right?
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